Dentril's New Moon - January 2025

Hey Shotbow!
Welcome to the start of our journey together in 2025! This is Dentril's New Moon of January 2025, the first of the year! I hope you all had a happy new year! I'm BasicAly, and I'm here to give you updates about what's been going on here at Shotbow!

Network Updates
Store Updates
Recently, we released a special package on our store called "The SUPER Winter Bundle" where you would receive:
Gold Rank - Gold tag in-game + all premium benefits
25,000 XP - 25,000 XP to spend on all things Shotbow
5 Particle Trails - Festive Cheer, Candy Cane Swirl, Light Chain, Golden Bell, Christmas Tree
4 Balloons - Golden Star, Silver Star, Full Stocking, Little Snowman
1 Annihilation Kill Effect - Winter Slay
1 Annihilation Nexus Break Effect - Blizzard

The original release had some issues with granting players the cosmetics, however this has been remedied and players should no longer have any problems receiving them upon purchase.
Team Applications
Ever wanted to join the Shotbow Staff Team? The following teams are accepting applications:

• Development Team
• Annihilation Administrative Team
• MineZ Administrative Team
• Localization Team
• Build Team

Gamemode Updates
Annihilation Updates
The Annihilation Team is hard at work for their next update and are still looking for suggestions which can be posted in our suggestion section of our discord. They have also been hosting playtests of a new map that is in development, Fortress!

MineZ Updates
The MineZ team has continued their winter celebrations with new updates bringing holiday-themed dungeons, a new legendary, community-made builds and balance changes. Stay tuned with the changes in the current changelog here.

Community Winter Build Competition Winners:

• 1st Place: Tannatron and Frostie_
• 2nd Place: Azkiria and Alqddin
• 3rd Place: SmiteSword

To claim your prizes, please follow the instructions on the bottom of the competition post here.

Statistics
SMASH Rankings
The current SMASH Leaders of season 1 of 2025 are:

• 1. Cometcat13 - 1000
• 2. Grinch1768 - 1000

Network in General
Staff updates:

• BasicAly has joined the BAC Team and the PR Team
• ProBreezer joined the Development Team as a Jr. Developer
• Ganzatron has joined the Annihilation Team as a Mini-Admin
• SanderZ_ has joined the Annihilation Team as a Mini-Admin
• Zyong has joined the Annihilation Team as a Mini-Admin

Other statistics:

• There were 593 players banned in the last month
• There were 54 support tickets resolved in the last month
• This month we achieved a peak playercount of 161 on December 31st
• 63,235,079 XP was earned by players this month

Closing Words
That brings us to the end of January's Dentril's New Moon! We hope you have a happy and healthy 2025!
Best Wishes,
BasicAly